BQS Institute for Quality & Patient Safety

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The BQS Institute for Quality & Patient Safety GmbH (2001 to 2009: Bundesstelle Qualitätssicherung gGmbH; BQS ) with headquarters in Düsseldorf and a location in Hamburg is a company that specializes in particular in the presentation of care quality on behalf of various partners in the healthcare sector.

From 2001 to 2009, the BQS was responsible for statutory quality assurance in German hospitals .

history

The BQS was founded in 2000 by the German Medical Association , the German Hospital Association , the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds and the Association of Private Health Insurance as an institution of self-administration and initially worked on behalf of the Federal Board of Trustees for Quality Assurance.

With the Statutory Health Insurance Modernization Act on January 1, 2004, the tasks relating to the regulations in the area of ​​external quality assurance (QA) were transferred from the Federal Board of Trustees to the new Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) in accordance with Section 91 (7) SGB V. The Federal Joint Committee then commissioned BQS in 2005 to carry out data-supported external quality assurance for all German hospitals.

With the GKV Competition Strengthening Act of 2007, the Federal Joint Committee was obliged under Section 137a SGB V to commission a professionally independent institution to measure and present the quality of medical care. However, the BQS was defeated in the Europe-wide tender and the activity according to § 137a SGB V on behalf of the Federal Joint Committee ended on December 31, 2009. From January 1, 2010, the AQUA - Institute for Applied Quality Promotion and Research in Health Care GmbH , based in Göttingen the tasks. The BQS sued the State Social Court of North Rhine-Westphalia (LSG) in Essen, which dismissed the award in August 2009.

The office then renamed itself to BQS Institute for Quality and Patient Safety GmbH and expanded the range of services. Christof Veit was managing director from 2007 to 2015; his predecessor was Volker Mohr. On January 9, 2015, the establishment of the Institute for Quality Assurance and Transparency in Health Care (IQTIG) was implemented by the partners of the self-administration in the health system and the Federal Ministry of Health (after prior adoption of the GKV Financial Structure and Quality Further Development Act (GKV-FQWG) 2014). Christof Veit was appointed as head.

Ultimately, this led to the biggest change in the course of the development of the BQS. In September 2015, anaQuestra Switzerland, based in Greppen / Lucerne, and anaQuestra in Berlin, took over the shares in BQS. Kurt M. Lang took over the management. AnaQuestra in Berlin conducts satisfaction surveys with which it supports the areas of medicine, quality and risk management in a large number of German clinics and clinic groups.

At the beginning of 2016, the BQS Institute took over the operational business of the market research company Picker-Institut Deutschland gGmbH, Hamburg, (based on Harvey Picker , 1915–2008). Since 2018, the BQS Institute has also been a development partner of the Picker Institute Europe, Oxford.

Shareholder 2001 to 2015

Shareholder from 2015

  • anaQuestra

tasks

The company publishes scientific reports on medical and nursing quality in hospitals. In addition, it receives data from almost 20 percent of inpatient treatment cases .

It develops and operates medical registers. The focus of the activity is medical and nursing topics, statistical methods, information technology for data management, presentation and evaluation of results, support of the user and implementation of the structured dialogue in the indirect procedure.

The BQS moderates the work of the specialist groups and project groups, supports data acquisition and data transfer by developing specifications for data sets, plausibility rules and export formats. It receives documented data records, checks them for plausibility and completeness of the data, evaluates the quality-relevant data for defined service areas and creates reports on the quality situation in care.

In addition, the BQS coordinates the work of associations and institutions at the federal level and in the federal states, manufacturers of hospital application software in hospitals and users in hospitals, medical practices and other health care facilities.

The BQS also has special expertise in the development of survey instruments. A focus in the area of ​​comprehensive evaluation projects such as studies / reports, measurement procedures such as the QS rehab procedure or in the area of ​​picker surveys. In this context, BQS has developed special technology platforms in order not only to be able to implement indication-oriented, very individual surveys with large samples, but also to offer its customers various dynamic reporting portals.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.g-ba.de/institution/presse/pressemitteilungen/297/

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